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MatPlus.Net Forum General Record for longest running problem/study column in a general chess magazine?
 
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(1) Posted by Steven Dowd [Saturday, Dec 17, 2011 21:49]

Record for longest running problem/study column in a general chess magazine?


Does anyone know the record for the longest running column of this nature, as well as the length of individual editorship? I don't mean columns in newspapers, but rather chess magazines designed for the general chess public.

I noticed that Benko's Bafflers, in Chess Life and Review, will turn 45 this August. Originally it published both problems (directmates and helpmates) and studies, today it publishes original and reprinted studies. I am not sure if this is the record for such a column, or the record for individual editorship.

Thanks for any information.
 
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(2) Posted by Ian Shanahan [Sunday, Dec 18, 2011 03:42]; edited by Ian Shanahan [11-12-18]

I think the answer might be the "Deutzsche Schachzeitung"? It certainly ran for more than a century, since the 1860s. Also, the "British Chess Magazine" has had a problem column for a very long time.

Does it count if the magazine itself changes names? Here in Australia, under the proprietor Cecil Purdy, the problemist Frederick Hawes ran a problem column from the end of WW1 until his death in the early 1960s.
 
 
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(3) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Sunday, Dec 18, 2011 04:52]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [11-12-18]

Individual editoring in general might be Wolf Böhringer of the Heilbronner Stimme with almost 60 years. Although that is not a chess magazine, so it won't suit the original posting.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_B%C3%B6hringer

Sorry, Steve, didn't read at first that you only want chess magazines.
 
   
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(4) Posted by Steven Dowd [Sunday, Dec 18, 2011 17:10]

Thanks to Ian and Siegfried. I certainly knew about Wolf, as I contributed there for a few years. I know Wolf ran general chess news as well, so it wasn't strictly a problem column. Of course, Benko's Bafflers is his own column, whereas the other columns in the magazines Ian mentioned were run by several people. Where that places Benko in the record books, I don't know, except that it is a phenomenal achievement.
 
   
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(5) Posted by Michael McDowell [Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 21:17]

Deutsche Schachzeitung was not published for a few years in the late 1940s.

British Chess Magazine began in January 1881 and as far as I know the only break in the problem column lasted from the middle of 1980 (when Chris Feather resigned) until a collective took over in January 1982. It is possible that there may have been the odd gap in the 1950s, when Stanley Sedgwick was editor. I remember John Rice (himself editor from 1961-1974) telling me once that Sedgwick was not altogether reliable.

I believe the record length of editorship for a problem column in a British newspaper is held by A.J.Neilson, who ran the weekly column in the Falkirk Herald from 1894 until his death in 1942.
 
 
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